This was a shepherded case brought by Edward Blum (profile: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa…) who is a champion of the conservative right and works to bring carefully chosen cases to court that limit race as a factor in a broad range of topics. Don’t think for a minute this case was all their girl’s idea - it’s…

This guy’s gonna be the hella-butt of every pier and wharf now.

Nope! My office has 4 lunch times and usually there is 7-9 men and 1-2 women at my lunch time. The guys mostly like it. The couple of apes we have joined in once they saw that there’s turkey/chicken/beef and they can bring in bread for a sandwich. In fact, the meatheads usually VOLUNTEER to bring in the meat so they…

I work in an office where we, once a week, all bring in 2 prepared healthy salad ingredients for lunch (random two unique picked from hat Friday before at lunch so we don’t have 19 cucumbers and nothing else Monday) the next Thursday for healthy salads Thursday and Friday. That way everyone spends a few minutes…

Someone needs to tell Anna Kendrick that she’s taking “end of watch” WAY too seriously.

I swear to G— that I went to a restaurant in a Florida vacation town once where the waiter explained they had a thematic menu with a “nuanced flow-through” (still a joke in my house) and the waiter described himself as an “experience guide”. It wasn’t even something like Per Se or French Laundry or an obscure Spanish…

The 40" Insignia smart tv sold out yesterday about 4 pm. Also, if you would be so kind, could you please keep an eye open for Foodsaver replacement rolls and bags? I got the starter set a few months ago from a deals post and am running low on the roll that came in the kit. Thanks!

The 40" Insignia smart tv sold out yesterday about 4 pm. Also, if you would be so kind, could you please keep an eye…

I know times are tight over there at Deadspin but if you’re just going to repost stuff from 2010...

I know this sounds counter-intuitive but I think Alexa is getting dumber the longer I have an Echo. I was one of the preorders and have had an Echo for a while. I was hoping it would be able to do things like say what local channel a ballgame was on or have a tie-in to my MLBTV account where I could just say “Listen…

I know this sounds counter-intuitive but I think Alexa is getting dumber the longer I have an Echo. I was one of the…

How many goddamn usb battery packs and cell phone dash mounts do I have to buy to keep the lights on around there!?! Just kidding. I honestly hope everything turns out okay. I like it here.

I wonder what food this decision will cause him to lose an appetite for.

I used to live 8 blocks away from Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. Now-Mrs. 4thdesk and I would just wander through walking on the weekends. We live in SomeBoringSuburbville now and have some of the little boys from the article who run around buttassnaked all the time and think back to the amazing shit we used to just go…

Remember that it cost Russia an equal amount to build a basic road in Sochi that was 7 miles shorter. Amazing what infrastructure spending can accomplish when it isn't all pissed away on graft and dachas.

David Blatt is Taub from House, M.D.

I agree! I’m a bookstore person and when the Borders bookstore by me closed I thought it was going to be a good chance to pick up a whole bunch of “lending library” YA lit for my classroom. Since I went there a lot I knew the prices pretty well. The liquidators jacked UP the prices to the max and then started with…

So what will 3/4ths of Oregon do while the official car of Portland and east to Mt. Hood is being recalled?

I wish they still offered the front bench. My dad was in a terrible accident and his right ankle mobility is very bad as a result. A bench seat allowed him to slide over a little and use his left foot to drive. The bucket seat makes that practically impossible. He had a mid-aughts Monte Carlo (with a bench in front)…

I slightly undercook sheets of phyllo dough in the waffler, pull the sheets out, and then spread a generous layer of raspberry jelly on each side with a sprinkling of grated very dark chocolate on top of each side. Put the two sides together and bake in the oven for 4-6 minutes at 350 or cut into quarters or squares…

When I was a kid my childhood bathroom had a bathtub/shower combo. The drain would run slow and I’ve always washed my hair last so often when I would turn off the water, there would still be foam at the bottom of the tub. I’d use the water that would drain out the tub spigot to rinse the foam off my feet. First left…

Helmets don’t discriminate between the runners and fielders. They hurt and they hurt and they hurt but he keeps running anyways, slides into second, advances the game, the game, the game. If there’s a reason that he’s in the bigs when so many rookies have cried I’m willing to wait for it.